Alder's Grove

Twelfth in a series of character-building vignettes following a bunch of characters through their time at Addergoole & beyond.

"And what will you do?"

Professor Fridmar was staring at her. Rohanna knew this was supposed to be unnerving, but she couldn't bring herself to feel anything but a little amused.

"What, you mean 'now that I'm free?'" She shrugged, and tried not to laugh at the professor. At her Mentor, even if she'd had to growl and grumble to get him to agree. He hadn't liked her reasons. Neither had Dyfri. That was the point. "It's not like Dyfri yanked the chain that much."

"But the chain was there, nonetheless, and now it is gone. Dah, what will you do now that you are free?"
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This is to dulcinbradbury's commissioned prompt "A rescue that happens long after the physical need for it has passed. (But it's just as necessary all the same.)"

Author's note: This is set in Addergoole, my webserial, which in turn is set in my Fae Apoc setting (Landing Page (LJ Link)) - the Year 8/9 stuff happens several years after the serial's main timeline.

In this setting, a twist of magic allows people to Own ("Keep") other people in a mind-control manner, which often is imposed on new students via trickery their first year. Also, Dyfri is a merman of sorts.

Dyfri hadn't been able to help Evie last year. He'd done everything he could to get to her first, but Calvin had grabbed her, Owned her, and that was, as they say, all she wrote. Calvin being what he was, she'd soon been forbidden to talk to him at all, and he'd stayed away so as to not make life harder on her. He couldn't, he knew, take Calvin on in a flat-out challenge. He'd struggled with a way to make it happen, but the bigger boy wasn't stupid enough to come into the water, where the bias in the fight would have swung the other way. So he waited, and swore a lot, and plotted.
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